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John Redwood via John Redwood MP on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
Borrow, borrow, and borrow again. The government is living in a fantasy world, where foreign investors and rich British people have to lend to the government to spend like there was no tomorrow. Their political strategy seems geared to a Spring 2009 election which they will back away from when they see the opinion polls, after a winter of job losses and factory closures.
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Two Britains and public sector inflation
John Redwood via John Redwood MP on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
Interest rates are the price of borrowing money. When the private sector was borrowing too much, the Bank kept the price too low, encouraging many more people to pay too much for houses, and alowing businesses to pay too much for commodities and raw materials.
Then they decided to end the party, bringing down prices, damaging the banks, and disrupting trade and jobs.
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LinkedIn Is A Search Business
(unknown author) via John Battelle's Searchblog on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
And it's getting down to it.
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Abortion and a woman's mental health?
John Lott via John Lott's Website on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
A longer discussion of the study can be found here.The University of Otago study found women who had an abortion faced a 30 percent increase in the risk of developing common mental health problems such as depression and anxiety. . . .the findings have implications for the legal status of abortion in New
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The Inbox, Part Two: Facebook Has An Ambient Awareness Problem
(unknown author) via John Battelle's Searchblog on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
I do this too much - post something short, as a note to myself and all of you that there is way more to say, then end with "I'll say more in the next post." Then I get busy and forget about that "next post" thing, and start posting on other stuff. What I really meant was, "in my next post on this topic."
Hope that clarifies thi
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"Privacy may turn out to have become an anomaly"
(unknown author) via John Battelle's Searchblog on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
That's the last line of a Times piece over the weekend on the increasing size of our digital footprints. Hmmm. But it is the basis of the American constitution. Read the Times piece, which, if you've read The Search and watched the "Web Meet
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Newspapers understate the borrowing by reporting government spin
John Redwood via John Redwood MP on Sun, 30 Nov. 2008
I have been reading the Sunday papers about the economy and wonder why I bother to. Several of them rightly condemn the government for borrowing too much, but they all use Ministers’ own figures in the press releases and budget statement rather than reading the much larger and doubtless more accurate figures they had to put out in the small print of the budget book.
They tell us
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UK Financial Investments Limited
John Redwood via John Redwood MP on Sun, 30 Nov. 2008
Readers of this site will be hearing a lot more about this new “arm’s length, commercial” company “wholly owned by the government” (on behalf of you and me, the taxpayers, who are paying for it).
It has been set up to own our shares in RBS, LLoyds/TSB/HBOS, Northern Rock and Bradford and Bingley. It will own assets worth well in excess of the annual National Income of
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David Cameron and Damian Green
John Redwood via John Redwood MP on Sun, 30 Nov. 2008
I was pleased to see David Cameron speaking out in the News of the World today concerning the defence of our liberties through Parliament. The silence of the Prime Minister is eerie. I seem to remember him telling us he wished to re-estabish Parliament at the centre of our political life. We all looked forward to that after the damage to our democracy perpetrated in the Blair years. Here
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Did Blacks and Hispanics defeat California's Proposition 8?
John Lott via John Lott's Website on Sun, 30 Nov. 2008
Some claim that blacks probably didn't tip the balance in the vote on California's proposition 8. Others have made similar statements that because of the unusually high turnout among blacks, blacks and Hispanics as a whole made the difference for Proposition 8.
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"Mumbai photographer: I wish I'd had a gun, not a camera. Armed police would not fire back"
John Lott via John Lott's Website on Sun, 30 Nov. 2008
Belfast Telegraph reporter Jerome Taylor has this telling report:It is the photograph that has dominated the world's front pages, casting an astonishing light on the fresh-faced killers who brought terror to the heart of India's most vibrant city. Now it can be revealed how the astonishing pictu
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Some advice for Mr Mandelson
John Redwood via John Redwood MP on Sat, 29 Nov. 2008
I hear this morning he is drawing up a list of companies that the government would need to assist if they get into financial difficulties.
PLEASE DON’T. Such a list could only be damaging. If it got out it could start a run on the share prices of certain companies. It will divide the business world into the elect to be saved and the reprobate to fail. The last thing we need is s
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The nature of democracy
John Redwood via John Redwood MP on Sat, 29 Nov. 2008
A democracy needs a strong Parliamentary Opposition to flourish. Democratic governments should seek to defeat their Opposition in open debate, and by following policies which are demonstrably in the interests of the majority. They should not seek to prevent, stifle or subvert the Opposition by undemocratic means.
Most of us want to live in a plural society where we can enjoy f
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Some more arrests for our government controlled state?
John Redwood via John Redwood MP on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
If the government now wishes to get tough on leakers, there is plenty for it to do. It might also help to start targetting the people with access to privileged information about important issues who leaked it in the first place.
The government should open enquiries into two very important sets of leaks that moved markets and made it more difficult to handle the Credit cr
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Soviet Humor
John Lott via John Lott's Website on Thu, 27 Nov. 2008
From the Dennis Prager radio show today:"In the Soviet Union there is freedom of speech. In the United States, there is freedom after speech.""Under capitalism man exploits man. Under communism, it is the other way around."
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Where to put the Obama Presidential Library?
bracken via John Bracken on Thu, 27 Nov. 2008
Lee Bey suggests putting the Obama Library in Pullman:
I’m sure the lobbying machine is already being built in Hyde Park and the University of Chicago. But Obama’s early days as a little-known commun
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The True Measure of Success
John Chow via John Chow dot Com on Thu, 27 Nov. 2008
What is success and how do you measure it? For many people, success is measured by dollar signs. The more money you make, the more successful you are. In the following video, I tell you how I measure succe
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Yahoo Launches "Vertical Lens Technology"
(unknown author) via John Battelle's Searchblog on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
Yahoo has rolled out vertical search lenses. TechCrunch is one of the first sites to employ it, SEL has coverage here.
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Dumb voters?
John Lott via John Lott's Website on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
Kathleen Parker has this story at the Washington Post:Out of 2,500 American quiz-takers, including college students, elected officials and other randomly selected citizens, nearly 1,800 flunked a 33-question test on basic civics. In fact, elected officials scored slightly lower
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